Video: 'Vermont: A Tour of the 50 States [14]'

(Friday, March 4, 1791) — Vermont, a northeastern state in the New England region of the United States, joined the federal Union today as the fourteenth state, becoming the first state to enter the Union after the original thirteen colonies.

Video: 'Vermont Travel Guide - The Green Mountain State'

Vermont was admitted as a state as a counterweight to slave-holding Kentucky, which was admitted to the Union the following year.